Re: sched: Avoid SMT siblings in select_idle_sibling() if possible

From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Date: Tue Feb 21 2012 - 03:32:51 EST


* Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx> [2012-02-21 06:43:18]:

> On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 20:07 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:14 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > Enabling SD_BALANCE_WAKE used to be decidedly too expensive to consider.
> > > Maybe that has changed, but I doubt it.
> >
> > Right, I through I remembered some such, you could see it on wakeup
> > heavy things like pipe-bench and that java msg passing thing, right?
>
> Yeah, it beat up switch heavy buddies pretty bad.

Do you have pointer to the java benchmark? Also is pipe-bench the same
as the one described below?

http://freecode.com/projects/pipebench

- vatsa

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